Mater Amatisima

Mater Amatisima (2017)

October 20th, 20170h 55min

Documentary
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Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?


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